I don’t understand the obsession with what the “mortality rate” is. Given the fact that many cases have only minor symptoms and there isn’t widespread testing that number is guaranteed to be bullish*t no matter how much you mess with the figures.
My concern is hospitals being overloaded with critical care patients. This is reportedly happening in Europe (although I don’t trust anything I’m reading these days) and it seems possible that it could happen here. Why should I care if those critical care patients who can’t get treatment represent .05% of infections or 10% of them?
BINGO!!
Seattle is a month into this and it started in the worst possible way (in a nursing home) and while busy the apocalypse hasnt happened there yet......the room sayers keep saying just wait..... I haven’t seen it
You should care because the cure may be much worse than the disease. If and when the economy collapses, no one will get health care (think Cuba or Venezuela) so instead of saving a few hundred thousand lives, millions will die....
There are actually two things here. Life is a risk calculation to put off the inevitable as long as possible, which is why the mortality rate matters. As you point out, the more important factor is the percentage of cases requiring intensive or critical care, a number that isn't published. This is important because it appears that the odds improve by a large factor with proper medical care.
That is it, exactly. The REAL problem they are trying to protect us from is this:
https://youtu.be/fgBla7RepXU?t=77
It’s not about keeping everyone from exposure. We will all be exposed eventually. It’s about keeping it from happening all at once.